We talked with Dustin Kirkland (Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical) at OSCON about 12.04’s end of life, the death of the Ubuntu phone, Snaps and snapd, and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Server. This is the second installment of our mini-series from the expo hall floor of OSCON 2017. Special thanks to our friends at O’Reilly for inviting us to OSCON.

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Featuring:

• Dustin Kirkland – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) reaches End of Life on April 28 2017
• Snaps - universal Linux packages
• Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence
• Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year
• The Changelog #207: Ubuntu Everywhere with Dustin Kirkland

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